The expression of tense, aspect, modality and evidentiality in Albert Camus's L'étranger and its translations : an empirical study = L'étranger de Camus et ses traductions : questions de temps, d'aspect, de modalité et d'évidentialité (TAME) : etude empirique / edited by Eric Corre, Danh Thành Do-Hurinville, Huy Linh Dao.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Corre, Eric, editor.

Do-Hurinville, Danh Thành, editor.

Dao, Huy Linh, editor.

Series:

Linguisticae investigationes. Supplementa ; Volume 35.

Linguisticae investigationes. Supplementa ; Volume 35

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Camus, Albert, 1913-1960. Étranger.

Camus, Albert.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Tense.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Aspect.

Modality (Linguistics).

Evidentials (Linguistics).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 388 pages)

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2020]

Language Note:

In English and French.

Summary:

This book deals with the linguistic treatment of tense-aspect-modal-evidential (TAME) expressions in translations of the French novel L’Étranger by Albert Camus into sixteen languages. It is strongly empirical in spirit, and uses the method of contrastive linguistics and multilingual comparison through the use of parallel corpora. It has five main parts: the first two offer insights into perfect and imperfect tenses in Indo-European languages; the third part shifts the focus on non Indo-European languages; the fourth part deals with modality, and the last part is more translation-oriented. These contents make this book a valuable contribution in semantic micro-typology. In terms of readership, both linguists and specialists in translation, as well as literature scholars, can benefit from the contributions presented in this book. It also relates to other usage-based, corpus-driven studies of TAME phenomena, and to monographs that take as their object of study the use of corpus linguistics in translation studies.

Contents:

Prelim pages

Table of contents

Preface

Chapter 1. Introduction

Part I. Perfect tenses and the French Passé Composé

Chapter 2. De la sémantique des temps verbaux à la traductologie

Chapter 3. Passé composé et insularisation phrastique dans L’Étranger d’A. Camus

Chapter 4. Peut-on traduire L’Étranger de Camus en latin ?

Chapter 5. À propos d’un conflit aspectuo-temporel engendré par certains usages du passé composé

Chapter 6. Le passé composé, temps de base dans L’Étranger d’Albert Camus

Part II. Neutral and imperfective tenses-aspects

Chapter 7. Temporal prominence demotion in updating imparfait uses in L’Étranger

Chapter 8. The PC and Imparfait in German and Swedish (re)‍translations of L’Étranger

Chapter 9. Imperfectivity in L’Étranger in French, English, Breton

Part III. Non Indo-European languages

Chapter 10. L’emploi des temps du passé dans la traduction du roman L’Étranger en japonais

Chapter 11. Les temps verbaux et l’ancrage énonciatif en français et en estonien

Chapter 12. French tense challenged by Finnish aspects

Chapter 13. Traduction vietnamienne des passés composés dans L’Étranger de Camus

Part IV. Modality and evidentiality issues

Chapter 14. Les modalités dans L’Étranger et l’expression de l’absurde

Chapter 15. Modal verbs in L’Étranger and its Romance translations

Chapter 16. Deixis personnelle et deixis spatiale

Part V. Perspectives from stylistic and translation studies

Chapter 17. Verbless sentences in L’Étranger

Chapter 18. Traduire les discordances temporelles dans L’Étranger

Chapter 19. The rationalisation of time references in the Italian translations of L’Étranger

Name index

Subject index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

OCLC:

1491309611